9 THE MOLDY FUR EXPERIMENT

CHAPTER 9 THE MOLDY FUR EXPERIMENT I grabbed my bags of monster fur and my science notebook and went into the kitchen. I started writing down all the bits of my experiment so I wouldn't forget what I'd done. It would probably take a day or two before I could even tell if the mold wasn't growing on some of my test fur. I could

第9章发霉的毛皮实验我抓起装满怪物皮毛的袋子和科学笔记本，走进厨房。 我开始把实验的点点滴滴都写下来，这样我就不会忘记我做了什么。 可能需要一两天的时间，我才能判断霉菌是否在我的一些测试皮毛上生长。 我可以

definitely forget a lot in two days. QUESTION: What will stop the mold from growing on Gorp's fur? Now I needed to make my guess. Which preservative did I think would work? Most of the stuff in the kitchen used salt. It seemed to work for an awful lot of things. So it would probably work on monster fur too. HYPOTHESIS: I think salt will stop the mold from growing on

两天内肯定会忘记很多事情。 问题：怎样才能阻止霉菌在Gorp的皮毛上生长？ 现在我需要猜测一下。 我觉得哪种防腐剂有用？ 厨房里的大多数东西都用盐。 它似乎对很多事情都有效。 所以它可能也适用于怪物的皮毛。 假设：我认为盐会阻止霉菌生长

Gorp's fur. All right. Now to decide how much of each preservative to add. I needed to add the same amount each time. Let's see. Maybe two teaspoons would be enough? That seemed good to me. PROCEDURE: 1. Put the Same amount of Gorp's fur in each ziplock bag. 2. Don't add anything to one bag. Add 2 teaspoons of oil to another. Add 2 teaspoons of vinegar to another. Add 2 teaspoons of salt to another. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar to

高能量小吃食品的皮毛。好吧。现在决定每种防腐剂加多少。 我需要每次添加相同的量。 让我们看看。也许两茶匙就足够了？ 这对我来说似乎很好。程序:1。 在每个自封袋里放入等量的Gorp的皮毛。 2. 不要在一个袋子里放任何东西。 在另一茶匙中加入两茶匙油。 在另一茶匙中加入两茶匙醋。 在另一茶匙中加入2茶匙盐。 加两茶匙糖

another. 3. Seal the bags. 4. Put the bags in the same place in the barn and check every day to See if mold grows. Phew. That was a lot of writing. I shook out my hand. First, I sealed the bag with nothing but fur in it. I labeled it so I could remember that it was the one where I didn't add anything. The nothing bag should grow mold like normal. In a few days, I could hold it next to the other bags to see if they were doing a better job of stopping the mold.

另一个地方。3. 把袋子封好。 4. 把袋子放在谷仓的同一个地方，每天检查一下是否长出了霉菌。 唷。写了很多东西。 我挥挥手。首先，我把袋子密封起来，里面只有皮毛。 我给它做了标记，这样我就能记住我没有添加任何东西。 无物袋应该像正常一样长霉。 几天后，我可以把它放在其他袋子旁边，看看它们是否能更好地阻止霉菌。

I got a new bag and added two teaspoons of vinegar and swished it around until all of the monster fur in the bag was wet. I crinkled up my nose. Blech. I quickly sealed the bag so I wouldn't have to smell it anymore. I labeled it vinegar. I did the same thing for the oil bag.

我拿了一个新袋子，加了两茶匙醋，来回搅拌，直到袋子里所有的怪物皮毛都湿了。 我皱起了鼻子。薄板。 我赶紧把袋子封上，这样我就不用再闻了。 我给它贴上了醋的标签。我对油袋也做了同样的处理。

Things were going just fine until I added sugar to the fourth bag. "Ergh! This isn't working, Sassafras. The sugar keeps falling to the bottom of the bag. Most of it isn't even touching the fur." Maybe it would be fine? No. It was definitely bugging me that it wasn't coating the fur like the vinegar and oil had. Whump! Suddenly a big ball of fluffy fur was next to me

一切都很顺利，直到我往第四袋里加了糖。 “纯砂沙漠!没用的，黄樟。 糖一直往袋底掉。 大部分甚至都没有接触到皮毛。” 也许这样可以吗？否。 它没有像醋和油那样覆盖在皮毛上，这确实让我很困扰。 噗噗!突然，一个毛茸茸的大球出现在我身边